Mgr. Kateřina Kolářová, Ph.D. ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** • Kancelář: 2.39 • e-mail: katerina.kolarova@fhs.cuni.cz • telefon: 224 271 450 *========================================================================================= * Konzultační hodiny: *========================================================================================= Viz SIS [ URL "https://is.cuni.cz/studium/kdojekdo/index.php?do=detailuc&kuc=14752"] . Kateřina Kolářová received her PhD in Anglo-American Literary Studies and an MA in History American Studies and History from Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. My work is grounded in feminist cultural studies, and is located at the intersections of s gender, critical disability and race/ethnic studies. Building off of the post-colonial and critiques of conceptual colonialism of ‘assuming the other’, my research at the moment foc following questions: (1) Cultural formations of zones of abandonment and intersectional an Transnational feminisms and transnational pedagogies; (3) Global economies of disability a precarity. Positioning myself as a feminist, queer and crip scholar, I also believe strongly in the n to bridge university spaces with other spheres of critical work towards social justice and racialised privilege. As part of this commitment, I have been since 2008 co-organising a t queer film class in collaboration with Prof. Robert McRuer (George Washington University) film festival Mezipatra. I served as co-curator for the disability arts and culture exhibi Normality hosted by Gallery for Contemporary Art DOX (Prague, May 23—September 16, 2013), on an international art project collaborations for instance AIDS/HIV as (another) Form of [AIDS/HIV als (andere) Form der Guvernamentalität, curated by Miltiadis Gerothanassis and IG-Bildenkunst, Vienna, December 11 - February 22, 2013) and with Display – Association fo and collective practice on Multilogues on the Now: On Health (curated by Zuzana Jakalová i Multilogues on the Now: On Health, work and emotions (curated by Zuzana Jakalová and Hana 2018). Presently, I am finishing two book-length projects: Post-socialist Rehabilitations: Disability, Race, Gender and Sexuality and the Limits of N The book interrogates affective economies of trans/national belonging and abandonment that post-socialist citizenship vis-a?-vis discourses of disability, race, gender and sexuality a varied archive comprising cultural representations, popular media, public discourses as discourses of feminist, queer, disabled, racialised communities, the book asks: how were t of social change, the ‘democratisation’ of society (subsequent to the regime change in 198 upon creating zones of abandonment and social death sanctioned both by state and liberal p politicizes the layered temporalities and relations among gender, sex, race, disability an through the concept of capitalist rehabilitation discussing the integration of the (Czech) national subject into global capitalism. Biological Citizenship and Chronic Embodiments, the politics of HIV and AIDS in the Postso Republic This project builds off of my explorations of neoliberal governance of (non-normative/disa sexualities through examining HIV and AIDS as sites of individual and collective identity ‘imagined communities’ become realised as ‘imagined (biological, viral and sexual/ised) vu I am also exploring the methodological and political valences crip theory could draw from notion of insignificance (HIV and AIDS have never achieved a level of an epidemic in the C and relative periphery (to the global HIV/AIDS crisis) to push the knowledge formations ar and AIDS. In particular, I am interested in the category of chronicity, its uses in the (l transnational) biomedical knowledge and strategies crafted by HIV positive people (dis)ide from the hegemonic knowledges of HIV/AIDS in articulations of ‘positive identity’. To cont discourses of chronicity against the backdrop of transnational/global political economy of its racialised and gendered implications, I also explore the ways in which narratives of ‘ life’, or ‘pozitude’ relate to white supremacy and create zones of exclusion. *========================================================================================= * Further Publications: *========================================================================================= ‘Crip Notes on the Idea of Development’, co-authored with Katharina Wiedlack, Somatechnics 125-141. [currently listed as one of the ‘most read’ on the Somatechnics website, http://www.euppub abs/10.3366/soma.2016.0187] The essay presents the global/transnational disability studies critiques of the concept of offers a crip approach to urgent issues in development studies including, but not limited labour, capitalism, migration, gentrification, neo-liberalism and globality. It considers projects impact upon the bodies, lives, communities and cultures of those implicated by id and practices of development. Questions about time, geo-politics and subjectivity are cent discussion of crip theory of develipment. “Death by Choice, Life by Privilege: Biopolitical Circuits of Vitality and Debility in the Empire.” Foucault and Government of Disability. Ed. Shelley Tremain. Ann Arbor: The Univer Press (second and enlarged edition), 2015. 396-424 The text discusses the contemporary proliferation of cultural narratives of incapacitation dementia) as a sign of an acute cultural anxiety provoked by biological precarity. The tex debates around end-of-life decision-making and ‘assisted dying’ (Sterbehilfe) that circula images of biological precarity. The text then in turn contextualizes these debates within political context of Empire (Hardt and Negri 2000) to reveal how discourses of disability, dementia motivate cultural narratives that offer affective release through fantasies of so resolutions of these biological failings of the Global North. This chapter constitutes an ways in which biological precarity—as currently construed in relation to disability and de global North— motivates and revitalizes ideologies of Empire and whiteness. “Grandpa lives in paradise now’: Biological Precarity and Global Economy of Debility”, Fem Special issue on Debility and Frailty. Guest Editors: Sadie Wearing, Yasmin Gunaratnam and 111.3. (2015): 75-87 Building off of my earlier research into end-of-life decision-making and biological precar theorizes its relationships to discourses and practices of transnational economy of care. the European (in particular German) public discourse on dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, media representations of dementia against those of Baan Kamlangchay, Thailand, a care home care for older people with dementia from the global North. Arguing that Baan Kamlangchay r concrete example of emerging circuits of transnational care/reproductive labour, the text power dynamics in the relationships between the racialised and gendered care workers and ( residents. It further situates the care practices against larger historical context of tra knowledges of disability and global economy, and theorises the interrelations between disa global bio-political inequalities. “The Inarticulate Post-Socialist Crip. On the Cruel Optimism of Neoliberal Transformations Republic” Cripistemologies. Special Issue of The Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Guest Editors: Merri Lisa Johnson and Robert McRuer. 8.3(2014):263-280; The essay was chosen for reprint in Culture - Theory - Disability: Encounters Between Disa and Cultural Studies (Disability Studies: Body - Power - Difference), Moritz Ingwersen, An Eds. Transcript Verlag, 2017; and is being translated into German to appear in Maria Mesne Mesquita (eds.) Eine emotionale Geschichte: Geschlecht im Zentrum der Politik der Affekte, Verlag, Wien 2017). The article discusses the ways in which disability semantics and ideological structures of health and able-bodiedness served to fuel the optimism of the first post-revolutionary yea socialist Czechoslovakia. It offers conceptualisations of ‘capitalist rehabilitation’—a st feeling, a moral discourse framing the process of ‘rehabilitation’ of a formerly socialist allowed its ideological ‘enfoldings’ back to the European future. It reveals the ways in w possibility of critical disability (crip) epistemologies were foreclosed by formations of citizenship. To speak to this inaccessibility of critical disability epistemologies, I coi ‘inarticulate crip’. Czech translation (shortened and edited) available here: http://artalk.cz/2018/06/25/neart postsocialisticke-crip-vize/ Alterity—Disability—Critique: The Disability Theory Reader [Jinakost - postižení - kritika konstrukty nezpůsobilosti a hendikepu: Antologie textů z oboru disability studies], Praha: Publishing (SLON), 2013. 581 pgs. [reviews in Gender and Research; Lidové noviny; Týdeník A2 and on several national radio s This anthology brings together canonical essays that articulate the theoretical, conceptua methodological positions of disability studies. As the first ever collection of disability Czech, the book is widely cited and contributes crucially to the foundation of the field i academia. Further import of the book lies in its disciplinary diversity, breadth of presen perspectives and cultural contexts and its potential for the classroom. The book is widely used in classrooms across a variety of disciplinary settings (from cultural studies, cultu to sociology) and levels of higher education. *========================================================================================= * GRANTS AND AWARDS *========================================================================================= 2018–2020: Humboldt Research Fellowships for experienced researchers (under review) with project: “Post-socialist Rehabilitations: Disability, Race, Gender and the Limits of National Belonging“ May-July 2018: DAAD Research Fellowship at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Zentrum für tra Geschlechterstudien and Universität Potsdam. Project: HIV/AIDS: Chronic Embodiments and Bi Citizenship in the Postsocialist Czech Republic. 2017–2019: (Post-)socialist modernity and social and cultural politics of disability and d international research grant jointly awarded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and Foundation (GAČR); principal applicant and researcher, leader of the Czech research team 2017–2019: “Imagining the “other”: Collective representations and the politics of social e ( VS 260 468); member of the research team and a mentor to students, internal-grant awarde University 2013–2015: Biological citizenship: forms of governance and resistance tobiomedical knowled Republic; research grant awarded by Czech Science Foundation (GAČR 13-18411S), principal a researcher, leader of research team 2013: De-colonising Disability Theory; international cooperation between Department of Gen Charles University and Gender Research Office, Universität Wien; awarded by Aktion: The Cz fund; principal applicant 2009–2011: Cultural Representations of Disability and its Transformations; research grant Agency of Czech Academy of Science (KJB 908080902); principal applicant and researcher 2009–2011: Transformation of Gender Culture in Czech Society, 1948-89; research grant awar Science Foundation; research team member January–December 2011: Gender as a tool of interdisciplinary Analysis; member of the resea internal-grant awarded by School of Humanities, Charles University January–December 2010: Disability and Bodily Difference in Interdisciplinary Perspective: awarded by School of Humanities; member of the research team and tutor of students’ partic *========================================================================================= * FELLOWSHIPS AND VISITING POSITIONS *========================================================================================= July 2010–present: Affiliation with Bodies of Work, University of Illinois at Chicago April 2015: Visiting Lecturer, Linköping University, Sweden WS 2014: Visiting Scholar, Gender and Women’s Studies Department, University of Illinois a May 2014: Visiting Lecturer, research stay co-sponsored by GEXcel (Center of Gender Excell University, Sweden May 2013: Visiting Lecturer, Gender Research Office, Universität Wien, Austria May 2012: Visiting Lecturer, Erasmus Mundus – Master in Special Education Needs (SEN), WS 2011: Visiting Professor, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Universität Wien, Austria January 2010: Visiting Scholar, English Department, George Washington University, Washingt January-September 2009: Fellowship at Center of Excellence Cultural Foundations of Integra Konstanz Full CV